📜 Official Text

(1) If at any time, except when both Houses of Parliament are in session, the President is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary for him to take immediate action, he may promulgate such Ordinances as the circumstances appear to him to require. (2) An Ordinance has the same force as an Act of Parliament, but every such Ordinance - (a) must be laid before both Houses and ceases to operate six weeks after Parliament reassembles (or earlier if both Houses pass resolutions disapproving it); and (b) may be withdrawn at any time by the President. (3) An Ordinance is void to the extent it makes provision Parliament itself would not be competent to enact.